Metropolitan Planning Enhancement Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5711 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5711 To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to improve public understanding of how transportation investments are made by public agencies through establishing greater transparency and accountability processes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 8, 2025 Mr. DeSaulnier introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to improve public understanding of how transportation investments are made by public agencies through establishing greater transparency and accountability processes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Metropolitan Planning Enhancement Act''. SEC. 2. METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING. (a) Development of Transportation Plan.--Section 134(i) of title 23, United States Code, is amended-- (1) by redesignating paragraphs (7) and (8) as paragraphs (8) and (9); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following: ``(7) Project selection transparency and accountability.-- Projects included in the adopted transportation plan shall be selected through a publicly available transparent process that includes use of criteria that directly support factors in subsection (h), the national transportation goals under section 150(b), and applicable State transportation goals. The criteria shall be used to publicly categorize the highest performing projects.''. (b) Metropolitan Tip.--Section 134(j)(2)(A) of title 23, United States Code is amended by adding after the period at the end the following: ``Projects included in the